is a 1994 film directed by

Kaizo Hayashi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with '' To Sleep so as to Dream'' (1986). He is best known for his neo-noir '' Maiku Hama'' trilogy, ''The Most Terrible Time in My Life'' (1994), '' Stairway to the Dist ...

. The film is the first in the series featuring the detective Mike Hama (a play on the

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detective

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), which included two more films by Hayashi (''Stairway to the Distant Past'' and ''The Trap''), a TV series (''Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku''), and a film made from one episode of that TV series ('' Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name'').

Reception

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, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an

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score of 61, based on 8 reviews.

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* 1994 films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub